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Rev. Felix Turng, Jy.
+ « . Leads New Eu’m{f'
‘New Bapfist
A mew Baptis{ Church will be
grganized at Ofonee Heights this
sunday sfternoon with Rev, Felix
Turne® jr. having been elected as
its pastor and J. A. Parham, Supt.
of the Sunday School.
In July, 1944 the Rev. T. R.
Harvill, pastor of Prince Avenue
Baptist church, and a few inter
ested workers met with a group
of adults at Oconee Heights and
discussed with them the possibili
ties of having a Mission Sunday
School in that community, spon
sored by the Prince Avenue Bap
tist Church. The first classes were
, held in the Justice of Peace Court
room at Oconee Heights. Soon
the one room was outgrown and
classés were being held in the
ghade of trees and in automobiles.
A few months later three rooms
were rented and the growing Sun
day Sehool soon filled thesé three
rooms, .As interest and attend
ance coltinued to increase, &
building was erected with a
church auditorium and six class
" room§. Much work was done by
the péople of the community un-‘
.@r “the leadership of Sunday
School Superintendgnt Parham,
Eaéh summer a Vacation Bible
Schod& is held in the misslon with
preaching each night of the week.
A t(riginiflg union was organized.
Sunday School #&nd Training
Union have grown rapidly. |
Under the leadership of Mr.
Parham with the help of many
others in that community the need
; for the Mission to be constituted
into a church became apparent.
The Rev. Mr. Turner, an out
| standing student at Mercer Uni
} versity, and formerly of Truett-
McCannell Junior College, was
called as pastor to serve the
church two Sundays each month.
An all day meeting is being
planned for this coming Sunday.
At the morning service, Pastor
Turner will preach and dinner
will be served. Friends who de
sire to have lunch with them are
requested to bring a basket lunch.
! In the afternoon the service of
organization, under the direction
of Pastor Harvill will begin at
2:15. Friends and members of
the Prince Avenue Baptist Church
and the Oconee Heights Commun
ity are cordially invited to parti
cipate in this service of organiza
tion.
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2 Marine Flyers .
Fo
Killed In Crash
CHERRY POINT, N. C., June 23.
«~(AP)—The bodies of a Marine
pilot, who survived the Jap at
tack upon Pearl Harbor, and his
passenger were removed last night
| irom the wreckage of their fighter
| plane. The plane crashed Wednes
day night near Hampstead, N. C.
. Tech Sergeant John L. Sidwa,
29, of Newark, N. J., was the pilot.
! His passenger was Corporal Tho
pras -E. Sims, jr., 20, of RFD 2,
Trussville, Ala. Both-were attach
; éd to Marine Night Fighter Squad
i ron No. 531. Sidwa enlisted in the
Marines in 1939 and witnessed the
bombing of Pearl Harbor. Decem
' ber 7, 1941. He received his wings,
after the war, was commissioned
a lieutenant in 1946 and returned
to the enlisted ranks in 1947. His
widow and two children live here,
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State Commies
Spread Leaflets
ATLANTA, June 23— (AP) —
Georgia’s Communists are circu
lating leaflets again—this time ih
an effort to free their leader,
Homer Chase—who was sent to
prison for circulating leaflets.
Signed by the Communist party
of Georgia, the leaflets charge that
Chase’s conviction of contempt of
the Carroll County superior court
“js part of the ‘cold war’ policy
of (President) Truman.”
Chase admitted during the con
tempt hearing Saturday before
Superior Judge Samuel Boykin
that he was author of a leaflet
criticizing as a ‘“frame up” the
trial of Clarence Henderson, Car
roll negro sharecropper, in the
1948 slaying of Carl Stephens, a
Georgia Tech student.
Judge Boykin fined Chase S2OO
and sentenced him to 20 days in
jail. He is now serving the time.
The new Zleaflets say, “Free
speech in Georgia is allowed oniy
to the Cox monopoly whose pa=
pers gupnort the atom bemb poli=
cies of Truman. Un'ess yon are
a big landowner or Weoll Street
benker or one of their Illan
stoores Yo herra & ¢lake in freeins
those in Carrollt Mo pisvuas,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Hope To Have Giant
Power Plant Working
In Four Or Five Years
HARWELL, Eng, June 23—
(AP) — Sir John Cockroft, direc
tor of the giant new Harwell atom
research laboratory, says Britain
may have a practical atomic power
plant in “four or five yers.”
Cockroft revealed yesterday that
researchers at Harwell, with tb‘;',"-
goal in view, are trying to fir
out new ways to produce p’ ,\'»l’
ium— atom bomb ingredient s
ter and more efficiently.
He said his scientists already
have worked out a new way of
getting uranium out of uranium ore
‘more economically.
The vast Harwell laboratory was
thrown open to the press for the
first time yesterday. Top atom
scientists showed American and
European newsmen — no Russians
or east Europeans were invited—
their 110-inch underground cy
clothron, their house-high atomic
pile and many of their formerly
secret processes. Few key facts or
figures were disclosed, however.
The atomic pile is a 40-foot
stack of lavendar-painted graphite
blocks. Uranium slugs are thrust
in through small six-inch square
ports on both sides and cold-air
ducts keep the temperature down.
‘ Harwell’s so-called “hot lab”
‘where products of the atomic pile
are sorted was engaged in the
separation of a quantity of uran
ium from the plutonium produced
in the pile the day before.
Scientists guided the process
with the aid of mirrors fram be
hind a four-inch wall -of inter
locking lead bricks.
A major product of the atomic
pile consists of radioactive isotcpes
which give off rays used in the
fight against disease. A spokesman
said they can be produced so
cheaply that they are rapidly dis
placing high-cost radium as a dis
sease fighter.
Cockroft told the visitors that
Britain may have atom-powered
ships and submarines within the
next 10 years. He showed them
drawings of an atomic submarine
and said Harwell scientists are
conducting an intensive search for
materials to use in building atom
ic-ship power units. Rare metals
like beryllium and titanium are
getting close attention, he said.
Although no eastern European
newsmen were in the party, a cor
respondent for the Communist
London Daily Worker was present.
The Worker correspondent,
Peter Fyer, summed up the visit,
saying: >
“There was nothing on view
here not already known to any
sixth grade science student.” -
Tughoat Raci
ToCrashed B-Y
GUAM, June 23 —(AP)— The
fleet tug Munsey sped tonight to
a spot 140 miles southeast of
Guam where at least nine survi
vors of a crashed superfort’s 11
crew were afloat.
Planes hovered over the scene,
after dropping life boats to six
men in two rafts lashed together
and three others wearing life jac
kets in the water.
The survivors were first spot
ted today by Lt. Cmdr. Edward P.
Drake, piloting a C-54 on a rou
tine military air transport flight.
Drake reported he saw only six
men in the rafts.
Other planes, including two B
-17 rescue squadron ships which
dropped the life boats. Three B
-29s and an Air Force C-47 reported
the other three in the water.
The superfort was returning
from a routine practice bomb run
on Okinawa yesterday when it
went down at sea.
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Shriners Given
°
Lavish Farewell
L.OS ANGELES, June 23.—(AP)
‘—Hollywood converted Memorial
‘Coliseum into a vast movie set and
‘therein staged a lavish going away
party last night for the nation’s
Shriners.
On hand for the grand climax of
the 76th Shrine convention and to
receive the cheers of 95,000 spec
tators were screen celebrities Dan
Dailey, Ruth Roman, S. Z. (Cud
dles) Sakall, Rhonda Fleming,
Steve Cochran, Arlene Dahl, Bill
Demarest, Mona Freeman, Charles
Starrett, Terry Moore, Marta To
ren, Eddie Bracken, Ronald Rea
gan, Gary Cooper, George Murphy
’and Red Skelton.
Atlanta Trolley
. .
Service Nearing
ATLANTA, June 23— (AP) —
All the technicalities seem to be
out of the way and the road open
for a resumption of trolley service
in Atlanta.
City councils in East Point, Col
lege Park, Decatur and Hapeville
approved a franchise transfer yes
terday that would allow the new
transit company to start rolling.
The Atlanta city council also
voted approval of the transfer
which puts the transit system un
der a group headed by Leland An
derson, ‘of Columbus in place of
the Georgia Power Company.
With most of the roadblocks out
~f the way, it appears that the
~iing - drivers will be back' at
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DYING GiRL’S DOG POSES PROBLEM
Nine-year-old Joan Schlinker of Cleveland, Dhio, is
sick with incurable leukemia and has onlya few months
to live. She and her dog Teddy are inseparable. But the
landlady of the family apartment says it’s against the
rules to keep dogs in the building. Joan’s parents
wouldn’t think for a minute of separating her and Teddy
—and so they are looking for a new home. The landlady
has given them until July 1 to move.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Lightning In Florida
Halts Convict Escape
Bolts Alsc Knock Down 8 Baseball
Players And Umpire: Church Burns
MIAMI, Fla., June 23. — (AP) — Lightning in Florida
yesterday destroyed a church, killed an escaping convict,
and knocked down eight baseball players and an umpire.
Convict Angelo Massina, 30, was hit by a bolt while flee
ing across a field near Winter Haven, Manager M. L.
Fletcher of the Bartow State Road Camp, said.
An eyewitness gave this ac
count: He saw Massina running.
Lightning darted about him but
he threw up his hands and kept
going. Lightning again flitted
around him a&d this time he fell.
The bolt ripped off the soles of
h(iis shoes ana one shoe was twist
ed.
Fletcher said no wounds were
found on Massina who with a
companion had jumped off a pri
son truck when it stopped at a
traffic light. The other convict,
Robert W. McKay, 28, was criti
cally wounded by gun shot. Mas
sina was serving five year for
breaking and entering and Mec-
Kay, four years for the same of
fense.
Another bolt during a baseball
game at the Naval Air Station
near Jacksonville knocked the um
pire and eight players to the
ground. Three players had to be
revived by artificial respiration,
but none was seriously hurt.
Charles Webb was winding up
to pitch when lightning struck
just off the mound between sec
ond and third bases. He was
lifted off the ground. The game
was .called right there, in ‘the
eighth inning.
In Winter Haven, lightning hit
a power pole, traveled under the
street by underground cable to
the Christian Science church and
started a fire. The church, built
in 1928 at a lost of '575,000, was
completely burned. <
Bulletin
WASHIGTON, June 23— (AP)
—The House Un-American Ac
tivities Committee voted today
to cite Steve Nelson for con
tempt for refusing to answer
questions about Russian atomic
espionage.
Nelson refused to answer al
most all committee questions
when he testified June 8, 1949.
Hoffman Flays
.
Textile Idle
NEW YORK, June 23—(AP)—
Paul G. Hoffman says the unem
ployment problem in the U. S.
textile industry can’t be solved by
halting exports from Western
Europe.
Hoffman, head of the Economic
Cooperation Administration, spoke
yesterday at the 11th biennial
convention of the AFL United
Textile Workers.
He said that an added billion
dollars in earnings for Western
Europe is expected by 1953. This
amount, he said, would mean
about $400,000,000 in increased
imports to the United States.
Comparing the $400,000,000 fig
ure with America’s $140,000,000,,-
000 value of wholesale goods pro
duced, he said:
“Frankly, I cannot see it ‘in the
Frankenstein, jpnp ious ¢it has_
attained in some 5 ?%‘35 VbR
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1950.
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Reed Memorial
To Be Unveiled
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Sunday Afternoon
A memorial to T. W. Reed,
registrar emeritus at the Uni
versity, .editor and Sunday
School teacher, who died re
cently, will be unveiled over his
grave in Oconee Hill cemetery
Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
The granite slab is to be pre
sented to Mrs. Reed through the
Henry C. Tuck Bible Class of
the First Methodist Church, a
gift from Morgan L. MeNeel,
who is a member of that class,
though his home is in Marietta.
A short program has been
planned for the unveiling. The
Tuck Bible Class will attend in
a body and the public is invited.
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Jo Anne Pendergrass (above), 19, of Cleveland,
. Was ) » 1950 Furniture Mar
Tenn., was elected queen of the 1950 F ture Mart in
Chicago. She was chosen over 15 other finalists by
members of the Furniture Club of America. Jo Anne is
seated. beside a miniature model of the American Fur
' niture Mart.— (AP ‘Wirephoto.): ;
Charges Prepared
In Enka Violence
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National Guard Won't Be Called:
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MORRISTOWN, Tenn., June 23, — (AP) — Tennessee
Highway Patrolmen can guard the bloody strike scene at
the American Enka Corporation rayon plant near here
without calling for National Guard aid, the State Safety
Commissioner decided today.
Commissioner Sam K. Neal said today he has decided
against asking Governor Gordon Browning to send Nat
ional Guardsmen here.
Neal’s decision, awaited since an outbreak of gunfire
wounded four men yesterday, came after hours of investi
gation which carried far into the night,
Neal said he will keep *enough”
state highway patrolmen here to
prevent recurrence of violence.
Gov. Browning has indicated he
will follow Neal’s recommendation
in the Enka strife. He and Adj.
Gen. Sam T. Wallace came here
yesterday with 75 highway patrol
men. to. restore order, . ¢ o
“All but eight ‘or nine” of the
nearly 100 men and woraen picked
up for questioning yesterday were
releesed, said Neal.
He said he expects charges to
be placed against others today.
The 13-week-old strike by the
CIO Textile Yorkers Uunion has
spawned repeated violent inci
dents since the plant reopened for
production late in May.
The outbreaks reached a new
height with the latest incidents,
which began with 25 minutes of
gunfire at the early morning shift
change yesterday. In previous
events, no one had been hurt se
riously.
Both Wallace and Neal closely
questioned members of the union
seized throughout the city and
near the plant after the eruption
of shooting.
Wounded five times by bullets
was Victor McDaniel, 30, a non
striker. He is in critical condition.
James McCamey, 26, an Enka
spinner, and William McGinnis,
22, who was reporting for the first
time for a job at the plant, are in
serious condition from bullet
‘wounds. .
David Proffitt, 26, a striker, was
slightly wounded in one arm. He
said he was shot while driving
past a group of non-strikers some
distance from the plant.
Morristown Policeman Raymond
Driving Class
The Ilargest Driver Education
class ever held in Georgia will
come to a close on the University
of Georgia campus- this afternoon
with more than 50 graduating.
High school teachers from over
30 counties and University pro
fessors from four states attended
the week-long course.
Instruction is given high school
teachers so they can go back to
their schools and install a driver
safety education class for high
school youths.
The college professors will go
back to their schools and originate
driver education courses for stu
dents studying to be teachers. In
this way the education students
will learn how to conduct driving
classes and thus eliminate the
necessity of many clinics held for
current teachers.
Such classes in college will be
offered in the Fall at the Uni
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Greenleaf said McDaniel identi
fied three men as among those
who did the snooting. Greenleaf
said Emory Wells, 25, and Fred
Jones, 27, both of Rutledge, Tenn.,
and Junior French, Jefferson City,
Tenn., were charged with assault
with Intent to commit murder.
Service For Questions
Diplomat To Get More Quizzing On
Passing Secrets In Amerasia Case
WASHINGTON, June 23.—(AP)—Senators investigat
ing the 1945 Amerasia case summoned diplomat John 8.
Service for further questioning today about purported FBI
testimony that he passed secret military data to a defend
ant in the case.
Service, State Department Far Eastern official, was
called to a closed meeting of a Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee. He got the bid after testifying under oath
last night that he never knowingly disclosed such military
information to Philip Jaffe, who was editor of the now
defunct Amerasia magazine.
Service - made that assertion aft
er stating that he was unwitting--
ly and innocently involved in the
Amerasia spisode, which brought
discovery by federal agents of
hundreds of confidential govern
ment papers in the New York of
fice of the magazine.
Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) has
accusd Servic of collaborating
with Communists—a charge which
service flatly denied yesterday.
McCarthy told reporters that
FBI agents’ testimony taken by
the Senate inquiry committee at
closed sessions last month will
show the FBI had a concealed mi
crophone in Jaffe’s room in the
Hotel Statler in Washington when
service and Jaffe met there in
May of 1945.
“Will the FBI testimony show,”
McCarthy was asked, ‘“whether
Service supplied secret military in
formation to Jaffe?” o
McCarthy replied: “Yes it will.
It also will show that Srvice was
aware that the military informa
tion was secret.”
McCarthy had no comment
when asked whether he has had a
look at the FBI testimony. He as
not a member of the inquiry group
and was not present when the FBI
agents testified.
Questioning by the committee’s
Republican counsel, Robert Mor
ris, brought Service’s denial that
he never knowingly handed secret
military data to Jaffe. Service
said he undoubtedly had discuss
ed the wartime military situation
in China with Jafee, but that he
actually had no military secrets to
impart to the editor. -
Mother, 10, And
® .
Son Doing Fine
OMAHA, June 23 — (AP) —A
ten-year-old girl and her new
born son were in “excellent con
dition” in an Omaha hospital to
day. .
The baby, who weighed six
pounds eight ounces, was de
livered Tuesday without any
special measures, a hospital
spokesman said.
The girl (white), described as
“small for her age,” had been in
the hospital several weeks. She
had been given blood transiusions
to build up her strength.
The spokesman said the girl’s
name and address would be with
held. The child, he said, will prob
ably be placed for adoption “very
soon.”
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and hot through
Saturday. Chance of afternoon
or evening thundershowers. Low
tonight 72 and high Saturday 91.
Sun sets 7:47 and rises 5:23.
GEORGIA — Mostly fair and
rather hot this afternocn, to
night and Saturday. Few scat
tered thundershowers in the ex
treme north portions this after
noon and Saturday.
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Total"since June 1 .. ... 2.78
Deficit since June 1 .. .... .12
Average June rainfall .. .. 4.03
Total since January 1 ....18.45
Défi¢it since January 1 .. 7.14
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. . . Still Talking
DR. SLAUGHTER
Dr. N. G. Slaughter, Athens,
has been re-elected Conference
Lay Leader of the North Geor
gia Conference of the Metho
dist Church for the coming year.
Other re-elected lay officials
are Dr. J, T. Lance, associate
conference lay leader; Smiley
Wolfe, Athens, treasurer; Jim
my Cox, secreiary.
Church laymen are meeting in
connection with the North
Georgia Annual Conference of
the Methodist Church in Atlan
ta this week.
» By The Associated Press
Governor Herman Talmadge
continued to assert yesterday he
would be the only gubernatorial
candidate to continue the Georgia
county unit system while M. E.
Thompson charged his opponent
failed to support draft segrega
tion.
Both had two appearances slated
for today. Talmadge speaks at
Columbus and LaGrange and
Thompson at Butler and Macon.
C. O. (Fat) Baker had four ral
lies scheduled—at Jeffersonville,
Mclntyre, Gordon and Gray.
The governor spoke before one
of the warmest crowds of the
campaign in Fitzgerald last night.
He did not respond to a Macon
Telegraph charge to say how he
stood on the sales tax question,
but declared, “I carried Bibb
county by a 3,000 majority of
white voters last year, but lost it
when the colored bloc vote came
in. This year there’s going to be
a white folks bloc.” He denounced
the Macon papers which are sup
porting Thompson as “traitors to
the maintenance of Southern tra
ditions.” 3
In Baxley, Talmadge declared
that the “racial equality crowd”
hopes to whip the state into line
on civil rights by robbing Georgia
counties of their influence in op
eration of state government.
Thompson’s charge that the gov
ernor was partly to blame for the
failure of Senator Russell’s plan
to get around segregation. in the
armed forces was made before a
crowd of 2,500 on the county
courthouse lawn in Columbus. The
former governor said he had evi
dence Talmadge failed to “go to
bat” for Georgia’s. congressional
delegation which was supforting
Russell’s amendment to the Selec
tive Service Act. The amendment
would have allowed inductees—or
selectees the right to choose se
gregated or non-segregated units.
Thompson also accused Tal
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HOME
EDITION
,’SlopGap’ Move
Unfil July Bth
Compromise Action
Awaited On House,
Senate Approved Bill
WASHINGTON, June 28—(AP)
The peacetime draft is sure to last
15 more days and is just about set
to run on for two or three more
years.
| It was due to expire at midnight
| tonight, but Congress moved fast
| yesterday and approved a stopgap
bill providing a 15-day extension.
The stopgap bill was sped to
| President Truman for his signaturg
| by voice vote in the Senate an
|by unanimous econsent of the
| House.
| In the meantime, the Senate
ishouted its approval of a threea
| year draft law extension aftey
| compromising one differenof ang
' beating down for a second time
tracial segregation plan for the
-armed forces. 5
There remain some differencey
between the Senate and House bill§
' that must be ironed out later. Fo¥
‘one thing, the House bill would
‘extend the draft two years, not
three.
. In any event, the President
‘seemed certain to wind uwp with
something less than his present
‘board authority to order the acte
ual drafting of men.
Present Law
Under the 1948 selective service
act and the 15-day extension he
has authority to order induetiong
of youths from 19 through 25 years
if this is necessary to keep the
armed services at authorized
| strength. ¢
~ The power has not heen used ng
‘recent months because the service
‘depend upon voluntary enlist
ments. 4 >
The Senate armed services com=
mittee recommended a three-years
extension of this authority although
th House had voted to give Con
gress alone the power to eorder
actual drafting.
A group of Republican sanators,
inc'uding Taft of Ohio and Wher
ry of Nebraska, sought to write
a similar restriction into the Sen~
ate bill.
| Senator Saltonstall (R-Mass),
assistant GOP floor leader and a
’member of the Armed Services
{ Committee, proposed that either
| Congress or the President be al
|lowed to order inductions.
| Chairman Tydings (D-Md) of
{the Armed Service Committee
[quickly chimed agreemtent but
| Senator Kem (R-Mo) shouted: 4at
{was ‘“no concession at all.”
| George Proposal
| . Senator George (D-Ga) stepped
'in to suggest that the President
‘have the authority only when
lCongress was not meeting but
' Senator Taft proposed a require-
iment that the President must find
{ “a national emergency exists” be
| fore doing this.
! Other senators objected that this
[ would produce a war scare or give
| the President unintended related
| powers and so the provision was
| toned down to “a national neces=
! sity exists.”
i That with some other limitations
holding manpower totals to those
|Congress had provided through
‘appropriation limits finally broke
!the deadlock.
| Senators said they expected the
| House to eventually go along with
| this restriction on presidential au
‘ thority.
Senator Russell (D-Ga), who
'lost 42 to 29 an earlier attempt to
let any enlistee or draftee regeust
Iservice only with persons “of his
own race,” offered a modified
I proposal.
It would have required approval
| or drafted in three fourths of the
|or drafted in three fourts of the
| states during the next six months,
or would have been ineffective.
The Senate rejected it 45 to 27.
Demos Launch
®
Defense Drive
WASHINGTON, June 23—(AP)
—Administration forces opened
a drive today for Senate agproval
of a program which would place
America’s most modern weapons
—except atomic bombs—along the
defense frontiers of western Eu
rope. ;
Senator Connally of Texas had
the job of guiding the $1,222,500,-
000 foreign arms plan into ifs
second year of operation. There
was trouble ahead—mostly from
Republicans.
Gen. Hodge To
.
Succeed Gillem
ATLANTA, June 23—(AP) —
I.t. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem will re
tire as commanding general of the
Third Army Aug. 31. Lt Gen.
John R. Hodge will succeed him. |
Hodge, 57, is currently com- §
mander of the Fifth Corps at Fort |
Bragg, N. C. He was assistant di- |
vision commander of the 25th Di
vision in the final defeat of the
Japanese on Guadalcanal, {
He led the first American moops |
into Korea after the Japanese sur
render and commanded U. S.
forces in Korea until he returned
te this country in 1948,